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UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 28. Message Logging

In the previous article, we explained how to filter messages using a verbosity threshold. This article explains how to send the messages to a file (or files). Message Example As an example, we added several message macros with different severity Read More …

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 27. Message Verbosity

UVM has a rich reporting facility. This article explains how to use a verbosity threshold to filter messages. Pre-defined Verbosity Levels UVM pre-defines six verbosity levels; UVM_NONE to UVM_DEBUG. These levels are nothing but integer enum values (the parentheses in Read More …

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 26. Sequence Arbitration

Our jelly-bean business has been doing so well that we started to receive multiple jelly-bean orders at the same time. Some customers requested expedited shipping, too. But how to prioritize the requests? It’s time to learn about sequence arbitration. Today’s Read More …

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 22. Phasing

When we created the jelly_bean_driver in Agent, we coded the build_phase function and the run_phase task, but who actually calls them? The answer is uvm_phase class. UVM Phases UVM has nine common phase classes (shown in yellow) and twelve run-time Read More …